Episode 1: The Handmaid's Tale

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus.” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Ben Brewster, trans. (New York: Monthly Review, 1971).

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine. (Routledge, 1993).

Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks, selections of which are available in a single collection.

Projansky, Sarah. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (NYU Press, 2001).

Silverman, Kaja. “Suture.” The Subject of Semiotics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).

Žižek, Slajov. “Welcome to the Desert of the Real,” from the collection of essays of the same title.